Visual Attention

Psychologist Dr. Doping speaks about the selection function spotlight of attention and feature integration theory.What are the main functions of the attention? How different directions in psychology approach to the study of attention? And it explains the mechanism of attention theory of feature integration?

Attention is the most elusive of all human cognitive processes for two reasons, which are noticed by many, but the best designed classic Russian psychology Peter Y. Galperin. On the one hand, attention to ever exist as a separate process, but it is always linked either to the process of perception, when we have something to look at, for something to follow, into something we listen; or in the process of thinking when we are working on something thinks.

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On the other hand, the focus does not have its own product. There is the image of the perception that we have built, we managed to see all that is needed; There is a solution of intellectual problems, which we have decided not distracted; perhaps there are traces in the memory system, when we for something implies that something is read and remembered. Attention is dissolved in other cognitive processes.

The leading theory of visual attention, which appeared in the 80s and celebrations on this day, though it repeatedly denied, suggested Anne Treisman - the theory of feature integration - is that the function of attention as the spotlight, is to link symptoms of visual objects that are in a particular location. In those areas of the cerebral cortex that processes attributes such as color, tilt, and so on, the information is organized as well as on the retina, that is the spatial principle.